5D0 ICACINACEAE. | Pennantia. 
Family LXII. ICACINACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, simple 
or lobed, exstipulate. Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite, more rarely 
polygamous or dioecious, Calyx 4-5-toothed or -lobed. Petals 4-5, 
hypogynous, free or rarely united. Stamens «qual in number to the petals, 
and alternate to them; anthers introrse. Disc rarely developed. Ovary 
imperfectly 2—5-celled or 1-celled by abortion; ovules 2 or rarely 1 to 
each cell, either attached to the apex of the cavity, or pendulous from 
one side of the cell. Fruit usually drupaceous, i-celled, 1-seeded ; embryo 
small ; albumen fleshy, rarely wanting. 
A small tropical or subtropical family, containing 38 genera and about 200 species, 
many of them very imperfectly known. 
PENNANTIA Forst. 1774. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers in terminal 
corymbose panicles or cymes, dioecious or polygamous. Calyx minute, 
5-toothed. Petals 5, hypogynous, glabrous, valvate. Stamens 5, 
hypogynous, alternating with the petals; filaments filiform. Ovary 
l-celled ; stigma nearly sessile, entire or 3-lobed ; ovule solitary, pendulous. 
Drupe small, fleshy ; stone obtusely trigonous, grooved at the back to receive 
a flattened cord which passes through a perforation just below the apex, 
and bears the pendulous seed at its tip. 
Besides the New Zealand species, which is endemic, there is one in Norfolk Island, 
and another in New South Wales. 
1. P. corymbosa Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 134.—A small slender tree 
15-35 ft. high; branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence pubescent. Young 
stage a straggling bush with numerous spreading flexuous and interlaced 
slender branches; leaves distant, alternate or fascicled, cuneate, 4-4 in. 
long or more, 3-lobed or 3-6-toothed at the tip. Leaves of mature plants 
shortly petioled, alternate, 1-4in. long, obovate oblong-ovate or oblong, 
obtuse, sinuate or irregularly toothed or lobed, rarely entire. Flowers 
small, white, fragrant, dioecious. Males: Panicles and flowers larger 
than in the females. Filaments exceeding the petals ; anthers large, oblong- 
sagittate, versatile, pendulous. Ovary rudimentary. Females: Filaments 
shorter than the petals; anthers erect. Ovary oblong; stigma 3-lobed. 
Drupe black, fleshy, about }in. long—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 368 ; 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 576; Raoul Choix (1846) 50; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i (1853) 35, t. 12; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 41; T. Kuk Forest Fl. (1889) 
tt. 77, 78; Students’ Fl. (1899) 88; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 97. 
Norra anp South Istanps: From Kaitaia southwards, but local to the north of 
the Waikato River. Ascends to 2000 ft. Kaikomako, November—December. 
Wood formerly used by the Maoris to obtain fire by friction; now occasionally 
employed for turnery, furniture, &c. 
( Oder! Ano am - Cee Nok, [SUH 123, 
Family LXIIT. SAPINDACEAE, 
Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely 
opposite, often compound, usually exstipulate. Flowers regular or slightly 
irregular, generally unisexual or polygamous. Calyx 3-5-lobed or of as 
many free sepals, generally imbricated. - Petals 3-5 or wanting, free, 
